Brits know how to deliver a message. Even though they took the idea of extremely graphic Public Service Announcements (PSA) from Canada, cause Ontario was the first to start with it when they have released their little pieces on workplace safety. The Texting While Driving Video segment is part of a 30 minute movie produced by the British government the purpose of which is to deter drivers from texting while driving. Nice of them – in Europe they actually have the laws making texting while driving illegal. This law has been there for at least 7 years, which is when I last spent some time in Europe. We still don’t have that here in North American. Maybe some jurisdictions (some provinces in Canada or some states in the US) do have texting while driving laws in place already, but as a general rule it is still not illegal.
I don’t understand how is texting while driving still illegal. I also don’t understand how it’s not illegal for females to drive but that’s a whole new topic. Seeing how each day my life gets put in danger by some stupid ho in a Cavalier texting her gay boyfriend to put his nasty dick in her ass makes me question what our government is waiting for. All of the three should be outlawed – female drivers, females spreading vaginas for wankers, texting while driving. Problem solved, public safety significantly increased. Isn’t that the purpose of most laws? Let’s protect general public and remove dangers from our streets. Well, maybe chicks sleeping with all the wrong guys is not a danger to public safety, but wouldn’t that make for a nice law?
BTW, if you haven’t seen any of the awesome Canadian workplace safety PSAs, check out this one video below:
MediaCurves.com just conducted a follow up study with 205 viewers of a Public Service Announcement (PSA) from the U.K. illustrating the dangers of texting and driving. Results showed that the overwhelming majority of viewers (85%) reported that in the last week, they had reduced the amount of text and mobile messages sent while driving as a result of the video. More in-depth results can be viewed at http://www.mediacurves.com/NationalMediaFocus/J7524-Texting-While-Driving-2/Index.cfm
Thanks,
Ben